sdk/lib/collection/linked_hash_map.dart

// Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

part of dart.collection;

/**
 * A hash-table based implementation of [Map].
 *
 * The insertion order of keys is remembered,
 * and keys are iterated in the order they were insertion into the map.
 * Values are iterated in their corresponding key's order.
 * Changing a key's value, when the key is already in the map,
 * does not change the iteration order,
 * but removing the key and adding it again
 * will make it be last in the iteration order.
 *
 * The keys of a `LinkedHashMap` must have consistent [Object.operator==]
 * and [Object.hashCode] implementations. This means that the `==` operator
 * must define a stable equivalence relation on the keys (reflexive,
 * anti-symmetric, transitive, and consistent over time), and that `hashCode`
 * must be the same for objects that are considered equal by `==`.
 *
 * The map allows `null` as a key.
 */
abstract class LinkedHashMap<K, V> implements HashMap<K, V> {
  /**
   * Creates an insertion-ordered hash-table based [Map].
   *
   * If [equals] is provided, it is used to compare the keys in the table with
   * new keys. If [equals] is omitted, the key's own [Object.operator==] is used
   * instead.
   *
   * Similar, if [hashCode] is provided, it is used to produce a hash value
   * for keys in order to place them in the hash table. If it is omitted, the
   * key's own [Object.hashCode] is used.
   *
   * If using methods like [operator[]], [remove] and [containsKey] together
   * with a custom equality and hashcode, an extra `isValidKey` function
   * can be supplied. This function is called before calling [equals] or
   * [hashCode] with an argument that may not be a [K] instance, and if the
   * call returns false, the key is assumed to not be in the set.
   * The [isValidKey] function defaults to just testing if the object is a
   * [K] instance.
   *
   * The used `equals` and `hashCode` method should always be consistent,
   * so that if `equals(a, b)` then `hashCode(a) == hashCode(b)`. The hash
   * of an object, or what it compares equal to, should not change while the
   * object is in the table. If it does change, the result is unpredictable.
   *
   * If you supply one of [equals] and [hashCode],
   * you should generally also to supply the other.
   * An example would be using [identical] and [identityHashCode],
   * which is equivalent to using the shorthand [LinkedHashMap.identity]).
   */
  external factory LinkedHashMap({ bool equals(K key1, K key2),
                                   int hashCode(K key),
                                   bool isValidKey(potentialKey) });

  /**
   * Creates an insertion-ordered identity-based map.
   *
   * Effectively a shorthand for:
   *
   *     new LinkedHashMap(equals: identical, hashCode: identityHashCodeOf)
   */
  external factory LinkedHashMap.identity();

  /**
   * Creates a [LinkedHashMap] that contains all key value pairs of [other].
   */
  factory LinkedHashMap.from(Map<K, V> other) {
    return new LinkedHashMap<K, V>()..addAll(other);
  }

  /**
   * Creates a [LinkedHashMap] where the keys and values are computed from the
   * [iterable].
   *
   * For each element of the [iterable] this constructor computes a key/value
   * pair, by applying [key] and [value] respectively.
   *
   * The keys of the key/value pairs do not need to be unique. The last
   * occurrence of a key will simply overwrite any previous value.
   *
   * If no values are specified for [key] and [value] the default is the
   * identity function.
   */
  factory LinkedHashMap.fromIterable(Iterable iterable,
      {K key(element), V value(element)}) {
    LinkedHashMap<K, V> map = new LinkedHashMap<K, V>();
    Maps._fillMapWithMappedIterable(map, iterable, key, value);
    return map;
  }

  /**
   * Creates a [LinkedHashMap] associating the given [keys] to [values].
   *
   * This constructor iterates over [keys] and [values] and maps each element of
   * [keys] to the corresponding element of [values].
   *
   * If [keys] contains the same object multiple times, the last occurrence
   * overwrites the previous value.
   *
   * It is an error if the two [Iterable]s don't have the same length.
   */
  factory LinkedHashMap.fromIterables(Iterable<K> keys, Iterable<V> values) {
    LinkedHashMap<K, V> map = new LinkedHashMap<K, V>();
    Maps._fillMapWithIterables(map, keys, values);
    return map;
  }
}